One of the more difficult things about adopting a left-leaning but essentially reformist stance on K-12 education is that you end up arguing with teachers unions a lot, not because you’re anti-union, but because teachers unions are the most influential and vocal representatives of the existing education establishment that you’re trying to reform. There’s a [...]
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Union Busting
AFTie Ed flags this story from Illinois, where it appears that when teachers in a newly-opened charter school attempted to unionize, the school responded with various heavy-handed and probably illegal tactics including loyalty oaths, etc. In my mind, if a charter school opens its doors, the teachers are happy working there without being represented by [...]
Muddying the Waters
In a column about Blaine Amendments and the efforts of a former Liberty University official to open religiously-oriented charter schools in New York City, George Will writes:
Now he wants to create a charter school — a public school enjoying considerable autonomy from, among other burdens, teachers unions. It would be affiliated with his New Horizon [...]
Local Teachers Union Leaders Speak
Teachers unions are at the center of many raging education policy debates, and opinions about them are as strident and varied as they could be. But while representatives of the national unions, along with unions in big city schools districts, get most of the press covereage, the experiences and ideas of the leaders of the [...]
Down to Brass Tacks on Teacher Pay
Leo Casey has weighed in on “Frozen Assets,” Education Sector’s recent report on the fiscal consequences of teacher contracts. Or as he puts it, “yet another” Education Sector report. Sorry, Leo–plenty more where that came from! No rest for the wicked!
It seems like just a couple of days ago–oh wait, it was just a couple [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.